Chapter 2535 What Kind of Valuable Thing Is This?

After reading the entire technical document, Malashenko understood why the Germans used such a high charge in the warhead.

It is well known that the Germans in the existing history did not use the radio proximity fuze technology until they were defeated.

This very easy-to-use advanced fuze that can multiply the efficiency of anti-aircraft artillery air interception is actually a "high-tech" exclusive to the United States and not available in the three Germans in this timeline tampered with by Malashenko's butterfly effect.

But this not only affects the combat efficiency of the German anti-aircraft artillery, but also derives another equally annoying problem.

The German anti-aircraft missiles do not have suitable fuzes. Although they can continue to follow the target direction for tracking flight, the lack of available proximity fuzes makes the theoretical kill rate of anti-aircraft missiles extremely low.

In this case, if you really want to cause effective damage to the Allied bombers, you must have an actual physical contact collision to do it.

But this is actually not an easy task.

Although bombers are huge and seem easy to hit, they are just a small black dot flying in the sky. It sounds simple but it is actually very difficult to hit accurately and trigger the impact fuse to detonate the warhead charge to shoot down the target when the missile and the bomber are moving at a relatively high speed.

The Germans have not explored a sufficiently reliable missile self-seeking seeker technology, and it is almost a pipe dream to use anti-aircraft missiles with collision fuses to intercept high-altitude targets.

There is no radio proximity fuse technology that can automatically detonate missiles when they fly into the killing range. Both ways to make anti-aircraft missiles play an effective air defense role and increase the air kill rate to an acceptable range are blocked. What should we do?

The German designer who led the project came up with a crooked way: transmit an electrical signal through the flight control wire physically connected to the missile to trigger the electric guidance fuse, so as to detonate the warhead charge and damage the enemy aircraft when the missile is detonated.

This actually does not fundamentally solve the problem. You should know that the only effective way for the Germans to observe bombers is ground visual observation. Even with the support of advanced optical channels with high magnification, it is still "more advanced vision".

This means that after the launch of this missile, the Germans have to use continuous visual tracking to determine whether it is close to the effective killing radius of enemy bombers, and then transmit electrical signals to the missile at the appropriate time to detonate the warhead charge, so as to blow up the enemy bomber with a "face-to-face explosion".

The biggest problem with this is that it is difficult to judge whether the missile is close enough to the enemy bomber formation by human eyesight alone.

The enemy bombers in the optical channel are just small black dots, missiles? Missiles are even more so.

If it weren't for the missile's butt spitting fire, we might not even know where the missile is. It is even more ridiculous to judge the flight altitude of the missile in real time and then decide whether to detonate. The Germans don't have fire control computers these days. Can they still rely on manual calculations to calculate the real-time dynamic altitude of the missile and then decide whether to detonate? There are really too many nonsense questions.

Just like many of the Germans' doomsday weapons, this air defense missile had problems from the beginning, and many design concepts were forced to start research and development without being mature. Then the research and development began to test the missile before the complete reliability demonstration. It can be seen from this that the Germans regarded this thing as a life-saving straw.

But no matter what, the Germans at least achieved the "controllable" active detonation right, and the missile was no longer shot out like an iron rod, which was purely poked upwards and could not explode if it didn't hit. So in theory, it has indeed achieved a great progress and deserves recognition.

Then, the Germans, whose technology tree was getting more and more crooked, began to follow the wrong path and continue to solve the next problem on this crooked path.

The Germans knew the problem and the weakness, and understood that it was actually a very ridiculous and easy to misjudge the altitude of the missile and whether it was close enough to the altitude of the bomber formation by visual inspection, even if there were missile firing tables with multiple paths and multiple launch angles that had been repeatedly tested for reference.

In order to improve the lethality of missiles, the Germans thought of another simple and crude method: stacking a huge amount of warhead charge to increase the effective kill radius.

According to the German designer's idea, as long as I have enough warhead charge and the effective kill radius is large enough, then even if the error distance of manual detonation by visual inspection is relatively large, it doesn't matter, because my explosion coverage is large? A large enough explosion range can solve the accuracy problem, and the "god-like" German designer firmly believes in this.

So there was the precious thing that Malashenko encountered on the battlefield.

In addition to the extremely limited fuel section and engine, plus the wire-controlled guidance head part, the rest of the huge body of the missile is all "precision guided bombs" with warhead charge.

Oh, it's still a bomb with a power section, not an ordinary unpowered inertial iron bomb.

To be honest, no matter how you say it, think about it, or understand it, the fact that such a thing can be born is already enough performance art. It is full of shortcomings and problems of "making do, making do, and getting by". It is undoubtedly a precious thing. It is the best evidence that you, San Dezi, had a little bit of brain when the end of the world was approaching.

And using this thing to fight tanks is even more of a "precious thing among precious things".

After listening to Malashenko's detailed explanation, Kotin couldn't believe his ears.

How crazy are you Germans? Military research and development is such a discipline that emphasizes logical rigor, science, and the pursuit of being down-to-earth, but you Germans have turned it into a "Renaissance-style performance art". God knows when was the last time humans were so crazy about their own creations.

It is also possible that you Germans really did "unprecedented", as for whether there will be "comers" in the future, that's for sure.

"So, this is a chemical anti-tank weapon that doesn't even have a shaped charge, can't fire a metal jet, and completely abandons the principle of chemical energy armor-piercing weapons? This thing smashed the most powerful IS7 heavy tank in service in our Soviet Red Army with a 101-kilogram warhead charge??"

Looking at Kotin's extremely unbelievable and even embarrassed face, the only thing Malashenko could do was nod.

"I swear to Comrade Stalin, God. I really hope that these Nazi Germans can be quickly wiped out. They are simply tarnishing human creation and tarnishing the science of war."